Preferences
Note:The buttons at the top and bottom of the screen are
common to all the preference screens.
- The top row contains the preference categories:-
- General - including confirm logout and whether or not
the welcome screen should be displayed.
- Display - concerned with the appearance of the
interface.
- Compose - (this screen)
- Extra Compose - use of the sent-mail folder,
the size of the text area for the body part and
the spell check language.
- Folder - options concerned with the use of, and
actions on, mail folders.
- The bottom row controls the duration of the changes:-
- Cancel immediately cancels any edits
- Change for this session applies only to the current
session.
- Change for this and future sessions applies for
each session until the change is altered.
You are returned to the Account Management screen after selecting
any of the choices.
Compose Preferences
When you first enter the screen it will look like this:-
Preferences
The individual preferences
In the screen above the Webmail default preferences are shown.
- Personal Name: - this is what appears in the From: field of a
message preceding your address. If, for example,
your address is someone@somewhere.org and you set
Someone Else as your Personal Name then the From: field
in outgoing messages will appear as
Someone Else <someone@somewhere.org>
- From Address: - this is what appears as your address in an
outgoing message. The default is shown on the screen.
An address must be a valid and it must belong to you.
For example a valid alternative to sp999@cam.ac.uk
would be sp999@hermes.cam.ac.uk.
- Default Reply-To:. By default replies will be sent
to the address in the From: field of a message.
If you wish replies to be sent to another address, or addresses,
then you can enter that address, or comma-separated list of
addresses, in this field.
- Signature: - information that appears at the bottom of
a message. By convention this is 4 lines or less. It is preceded
by a separator line -- . If you create a signature
here then the separator line and signature are automatically included
in the text field in the Compose screen.